The teabaggers who are supporting the Walker union busting don't know what it will cost them

[liberal N proud]

These people don't realize all the unions have provided for them, even if they are working in non-union jobs.

5 day workweek
8 hour workdays
overtime pay
Holidays with pay
safety
Health Care at their place of employment
breaks during the day
minimum wages
pensions in many jobs (this one is already being taken away in many non-union places of employment)

Add more as you can think of them...

[safeinOhio]

1. How about

your daughter's boss can't make her sleep with him to keep her job?

[MannyGoldstein]

2. "Keep the government's hands off of Medicare"

Remember that?

I don't think the rank and file Tea Partiers are evil - just angry and uninformed.

[MH1]

10. Critical thought is not their forte.

[KittyWampus]

3. that's because so many people work 6-7 days a week for 12 hours with no overtime

precious few holidays, little regard for safety and face rising costs for their share of medical care and either no pensions to look forward to or pensions that have been robbed by corporations purposely going bankrupt.

[liberal N proud]

6. Those jobs should be used as examples of what will come it the unions are busted

This has been a 30 year push by the right and corporations (same thing) to kill unions. It all started when Reagan busted the air traffic controllers union.

[KittyWampus]

9. you know, maybe if union made an effort to say "FIGHT FOR BENEFITS" rather than taki

taking them away from those that have them.

Like the Democratic party- yes, I am fully aware of the mountain of propaganda against the Left. But the Democratic party can't just whine and play victim. At some point, groups on the Left need to find a solution.

[Turbineguy]

4. But they will pay less in taxes!

(After the big drop in pay).

[liberal N proud]

7. Their wages could be reduced to where they don't have to pay any at all

[Turbineguy]

8. They'll be happy

when they are poor. Jesus told them so.

[annabanana]

5. child labor laws. . . .n/t

[fasttense]

11. No multitudes of dismembered children.

Prior to laws against child labor in the late 1800's and early 1900's, children as young as 5 worked in factories. Their job involved scuttling under huge machines to clean out debris. But if they were not very careful, the machines would rip off an arm, a leg, a hand, a foot, a few fingers and toes.

Even the operators of the factory machines frequently lost limbs. During that time, most average citizens considered the dismembered children and workers stupid for not being quick enough or smart enough. But the children were frequently forced to work excessive hours and were underpaid and hungry.

There were so many dismembered children and workers that some writers of the time said the streets in poorer areas looked like a war zone. So many people were missing limbs that you would have thought they were returning injured soldiers and civilians from a war.

That's what "free" market capitalism does when it can get away with it.

Thank a union member for OSHA and child labor laws too.

[datasuspect]

12. every one of those victories was paid for in blood

.

[liberal N proud]

13. For that reason, we cannot let it all slip away with the passage of a single law

[OHdem10]

14. The Teabaggers are looking out for the Have Mores. --these

are their concern.

[liberal N proud]

16. True

Why they continue to support the rich is something I will never grasp.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I just saw one of them interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning:

She was saying, "Nobody looks out for me at work. I thrive on my own performance."

What touching faith in the benevolence of employers!

[liberal N proud]

17. Saw that too, Such ignorance

She does not know that even that was fought for by unions.

[truth2power]

18. Matewan (DVD). About West Virginia coal miners in 1920, fighting for

their rights. The United Mine Workers fought against company thugs and some of them died, for rights that workers now take for granted.

I saw this movie about 20 years ago and I'll never forget it.